Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
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Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#2Set a price high enough that this becomes clearly a good thing: what about $25k/person, spent directly on vaccines for others? I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing. The most ethical path would be to be immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group rather than before, ideally as the last person in your risk group so you have skin in the game. Whoever is overseeing the vaccine program should go last, for skin in the game.
Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#3Set a price high enough that this becomes clearly a good thing: what about $25k/person, spent directly on vaccines for others? I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing. The most ethical path would be to be immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group rather than before, ideally as the last person in your risk group so you have…
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Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#4Set a price high enough that this becomes clearly a good thing: what about $25k/person, spent directly on vaccines for others? I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing. The most ethical path would be to be immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group rather than before, ideally as the last person in your risk group so you have…
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Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#5They have a point
Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#6The ultra-rich don't need a vaccine. They just get $150k stem cell injections into their neck.
Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#7Set a price high enough that this becomes clearly a good thing: what about $25k/person, spent directly on vaccines for others? I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing. The most ethical path would be to be immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group rather than before, ideally as the last person in your risk group so you have…
>I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing.
That's not virtue signaling, or not ONLY virtue signaling - they get priority due to continuity of government laws. See https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/13/white-house-congress-jud...
Now if they had integrity, the ones that dismissed, downplayed, ignored, refused to wear masks, etc. should have skipped their dose and given it to someone else.
>immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group
That would be nice except Congress is fairly old, average age is 57.6 in the House and 62.9 in the Senate. Not sure there are enough available doses for this to occur.
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#8The ultra-rich don't need a vaccine. They just get $150k stem cell injections into their neck.
You're downvoting a fact. Carry on.
Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#9Set a price high enough that this becomes clearly a good thing: what about $25k/person, spent directly on vaccines for others? I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing. The most ethical path would be to be immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group rather than before, ideally as the last person in your risk group so you have…
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Re: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines?
#10I wouldn't even charge for the privilege. As long as health care workers and nursing homes stay at the absolute head of the line, nothing else really matters until we hit herd immunity.
Publicize how desperate the rich are to get the vaccine and that 60% willingness to get vaccinated will go up (which is a large part of what the article said). I think charging money to skip, just causes a whole raft of other problems. Let the elites think they are pulling strings and just give it to them.